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Geneseo Geologist Helps Discover Marsquakes

The InSight mission to Mars has completed its first Earth year of observations. The results were published as a set of six papers in Nature journals. The papers show that Mars is seismically active and reveal information about its complex atmosphere, magnetic field and geology. SUNY Geneseo Assistant Professor Nicholas Warner is a co-author on two of the papers that detail the discovery of quakes on Mars—marsquakes—and describe the alien landscape at the landing site.

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American Rock Salt Lecture Features Paleontologist’s Talk on the Origin of Birds

Paleontologist Matthew Lamanna, Ph.D., the principal dinosaur researcher at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, will deliver the sixteenth annual American Rock Salt Lecture in Geology on Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall Room 202. Lamanna’s talk, “The Origin of Modern Birds: New Cretaceous Fossil Discoveries from China and Antarctica,” is free and open to the public.

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Geology Faculty Member Nick Warner Receives NASA Grant

Nick Warner in the field with students. Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences News Nicholas Warner, assistant professor of geological sciences, has been issued a sub-award from Stony Brook University for collaborative research on a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center grant award to Stony Brook’s Andrea (Deanne) Rogers, Associate Professor of Geosciences. The title of the project

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